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Cooperation is "the single best chance that we have" to save the planet, President Obama said Saturday as he stood with China's President Xi Jinping to formally enter their two nations into last year's Paris climate change agreement. At a ceremony on the sidelines of a global economic summit, Obama and Xi—representing the world's two biggest carbon emitters—delivered documents to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the AP reports. The papers certified the US and China have taken the necessary steps to join the Paris accord that set nation-by-nation targets for cutting carbon emissions.

"This is not a fight that any one country, no matter how powerful, can take alone," Obama said of the pact. "Some day we may see this as the moment that we finally decided to save our planet." Xi, speaking through a translator, said he hoped the announcement would spur more countries to take action. "Our response to climate change bears on the future of our people and the wellbeing of mankind," he said. The announcement means the accord could take force by the end of the year, a faster than anticipated timeline. The ceremony occurred shortly after Obama arrived in the scenic Chinese city of Hangzhou for the annual G20 summit of industrialized and emerging economies.

Do you notice that nobody is asking what happens if we lose more than 50% of the world’s ice. This is the question that needs to be asked over and over and over again !!! !!! It got down to 47% it has recovered slightly, but as you know this is a cyclic event. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/stories/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/etc/graphs.html This is exhibit 'A' irrefutable evidence that the Industrial Revolution is responsible for global warming or as they like to say climate change. Ice as has a albedo # and is highly reflective so if you lose the ice is replaced by dark blue ocean which absorbs the heat. https://www.esr.org/outreach/glossary/albedo.html So if you lose more than 50% you'll have a runaway or a domino affect. One does not need to be a math major to understand this !!! We don’t even seem to understand the importance of the world’s ice. This science that’s been around for more than 20 years. The ice core samples that store the history of planet Earth. The ice core samples that give the history of planet Earth. It’s equivalent to reading tree rings, it’s just that simple. Tree rings tell you how old the tree is, if there was a drought or no drought and if there were any fires. The air bubbles in the ice core samples go back 300,000 years. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/2015-arctic-sea-ice-fourth-lowest-record

Harvey Mitterdorf

Sep 3, 2016 8:17 PM CDT

Why does this guy continue to embarrass himself like this? He is either a total idiot or a pathological liar like H.

Bundy714

Sep 3, 2016 5:00 PM CDT

Notice the comments? Republican's desire to destroy the earth is just relentless. Imagine, the Communist Chinese are less of a threat to the world than Republicans. We worry about ISIS, when we should be fighting our own home grown terrorists. They are the bigger threat.